But Marilyn's stardom also made her, and it was her life's triumph, meant to be the ultimate validation of her worth.
"Too underpaid ever to have any real self-worth?" Perhaps it is better for all involved that she stay out of our classrooms; she clearly buys into the notion that infects much of American culture — that money is our way of keeping score, that it is some validation of our worth.
In a piece for gal-dem, Alexandra Oti astutely points out: "If you are told on a daily basis that people who look like you are unattractive and undeserving of love, a natural reaction would be to seek out that which is being denied to you as a form of validation of self-worth".
And such is the purest validation of the metaphysical worth of stuff — decluttering is virtuous, sure, but ridding ourselves of material histories can feel like dismantling our own skeletons, bone by bone.
But by using album sales as the primary validation of her artistic worth, she ignores the fact that the only people who still buy albums are Olds and children.
This advice comes from a place of love but it leaves us unprotected and uprooted, looking for validation and a sense of worth from a society that wants to erase us, dilute our differences, and silence our realities.
Validation of our self-worth, beauty and happiness should not come from social media.
In short, you may experience increasing loneliness from seeking external validation of your self-worth and self-esteem.
The "other" is validation of a film's worth that comes in the form of professional reviews, user recommendations, feedback from friends and general buzz.
They become obsessed with winning the validation of others and demonstrating their worth through flawless performance after flawless performance.
As a little girl who grew up hating herself and who had a crippling level of low self esteem, I grew into a woman who needed and was desperate for the validation of others to determine my worth and value.
